John Q.T. Nguyen
May 13, 2004, 07:42 pm
<B>Real Name:</B> James Buchanan Barnes
<B>Group Affiliation:</B> Invaders, Kid Commandos
<B>Height:</B> 5'7"
<B>Weight:</B> 150 lbs.
<B>Eyes:</B> Brown
<B>Hair:</B> Red-Brown
<B>Powers:</B> Bucky was an Olympic class athlete who possessed the normal human strength of a boy his age, height, and build who engaged in intensive regular exercise. In our reality, James "Buck" Barnes was a teenaged ward of the state assigned to Camp Lehigh in Virginia. Barnes served as the camp mascot and became particularly close to private Steven Rogers, secretly Captain America.
One night, Barnes happened into Rogers' tent just as he was changing to his masked identity. Sworn to secrecy, Barnes begged his idol to let him train with him and become his partner. For several months, Barnes underwent an intensive training program under Captain America's tutelage, finally becoming skilled enough that he was given a costume and permitted to undertake missions with his mentor, using the name Bucky. In late 1945, toward the end of World War II, Captain America and Bucky were in London, England, on the trail of Nazi scientist Baron Heinrich Zemo who was in the process of stealing an experimental drone plane built to be delivered to Hitler in Berlin. The two American champions saw the drone plane begin to move just as they jumped off. Quickly Captain America and Bucky grabbed a motorcycle and tried to catch up with it. Just before it flew out of reach, the two leaped for the plane, but only Bucky managed to get a grip on the plane's wing. Captain America missed, and shouted to his partner to let go in case the plane was booby-trapped. Bucky ignored his mentor's commands, thinking he would be able to defuse the bomb before it went off. The plane exploded, killing Bucky instantly. Captain America plunged into the English Channel, to undergo the process of suspended animation, the last sight he saw being Bucky's body exploding. Bucky's remains were never recovered.
<B>Appearances:</B>
Exiles #31
For more information about this character in the mainstream universe, please refer to ComiX-Fan's <A HREF="http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=47" TARGET="blank">S.H.I.E.L.D. Files</A>.
The following entries are made for appearances in various alternate realities. Brief descriptions of the alternate realities are made in parenthesis. For further comments about these alternate reallities, please refer to the <A HREF="http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=27020">Alternate Realities Thread</A>:
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<IMG SRC="http://x-mencomics.com/xfan/images/headshots/exiles/056/bucky.jpg" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="100" ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT FACE="Verdana" SIZE="1"><B>Bucky (The Vampire King)</B></FONT>
<B>Appearances:</B> Exiles #31
Similiar to our reality, this world's Bucky also fought alongside Captain America and the rest of the Invaders against the Axis Powers during World War II.
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<B>Group Affiliation:</B> Invaders, Kid Commandos
<B>Height:</B> 5'7"
<B>Weight:</B> 150 lbs.
<B>Eyes:</B> Brown
<B>Hair:</B> Red-Brown
<B>Powers:</B> Bucky was an Olympic class athlete who possessed the normal human strength of a boy his age, height, and build who engaged in intensive regular exercise. In our reality, James "Buck" Barnes was a teenaged ward of the state assigned to Camp Lehigh in Virginia. Barnes served as the camp mascot and became particularly close to private Steven Rogers, secretly Captain America.
One night, Barnes happened into Rogers' tent just as he was changing to his masked identity. Sworn to secrecy, Barnes begged his idol to let him train with him and become his partner. For several months, Barnes underwent an intensive training program under Captain America's tutelage, finally becoming skilled enough that he was given a costume and permitted to undertake missions with his mentor, using the name Bucky. In late 1945, toward the end of World War II, Captain America and Bucky were in London, England, on the trail of Nazi scientist Baron Heinrich Zemo who was in the process of stealing an experimental drone plane built to be delivered to Hitler in Berlin. The two American champions saw the drone plane begin to move just as they jumped off. Quickly Captain America and Bucky grabbed a motorcycle and tried to catch up with it. Just before it flew out of reach, the two leaped for the plane, but only Bucky managed to get a grip on the plane's wing. Captain America missed, and shouted to his partner to let go in case the plane was booby-trapped. Bucky ignored his mentor's commands, thinking he would be able to defuse the bomb before it went off. The plane exploded, killing Bucky instantly. Captain America plunged into the English Channel, to undergo the process of suspended animation, the last sight he saw being Bucky's body exploding. Bucky's remains were never recovered.
<B>Appearances:</B>
Exiles #31
For more information about this character in the mainstream universe, please refer to ComiX-Fan's <A HREF="http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=47" TARGET="blank">S.H.I.E.L.D. Files</A>.
The following entries are made for appearances in various alternate realities. Brief descriptions of the alternate realities are made in parenthesis. For further comments about these alternate reallities, please refer to the <A HREF="http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=27020">Alternate Realities Thread</A>:
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<IMG SRC="http://x-mencomics.com/xfan/images/headshots/exiles/056/bucky.jpg" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="100" ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT FACE="Verdana" SIZE="1"><B>Bucky (The Vampire King)</B></FONT>
<B>Appearances:</B> Exiles #31
Similiar to our reality, this world's Bucky also fought alongside Captain America and the rest of the Invaders against the Axis Powers during World War II.
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